Do you think marriage should be a license that needs to be renewed every 5 years?

With the rise of marriges that end in divorce and the cost of having a divorce do you think a marriage should be a contract for x amount of years that can be renewed or be left to expire if the couple so chooses.

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That's basically the concept behind handfasting. A marriage for a year and a day, that you can just keep renewing every year. Or you can specify that it lasts 'until the love is gone', or 'until the end of our lives', or 'the end of eternity'. It's fairly flexible.

It's a more realistic approach in one sense, as it lets people have a deep, meaningful commitment, with a nice ceremony and stuff, with the understanding that sometimes people drift apart, and that's ok. And if they don't, then awesome, let's do it again.

Not for everyone, obviously, but could be very useful for younger couples, especially for those that marry before their prefrontal cortex has finished development (which doesn't happen until the late 20s), as personalities will still fluctuate and you aren't marrying the person that they will be 10 years later.

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no at all. i think that would only increase the number of divorces and people who might work on their marriage might instead just let it lapse if they're approaching 5 years and things are getting rocky

and for those who have no intention of getting a divorce why make them have to constantly renew.

a divorce should be costly so people consider whether or not divorce is truly the path they want to take

No, I am really against that. Marriage should be a commitment for ever with penalties for people who break it. I find the cost of having a divorce is very very low for women, because they usually get the custody of every child, the family home and an important amount of money from their exhusbands. everybody who marries somebody needs to do everything that makes the partner happier in the relationship and I don't think that most women would perfect their relationship if they have a chance to leave it each 5 years. I think that every person who has kept their marriage should get a higher pension when they retire.

Almost half I think but It'd kind of take away the main point of problem if you make it more standard a legal contract. I don't even like the idea of a wedding and I don't ever want to get married because I just think it's a needless expense that is meaningles.

Never. Why buy the cows when the milk is free? Not a single girl in this generation is marriageable. I've been in the business world. There are plenty of young 22-25 year old interns that fuck everyone. Marriage is dead and women killed it. Women aren't women anymore. They're disposable fucktoys. Watching a man get married is like watching a man buy a heavily used rental car and pretending to be happy about it.

Sure, why not? It's not like people actually love their spouses now days. Or the person their dating for that fact. people just wanna fuck and move onto the next person when bored or cheat simply because they can. True love in the west is dead.